{"id":3775,"date":"2018-02-01T15:16:35","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T21:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=3775"},"modified":"2018-02-01T15:16:35","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T21:16:35","slug":"new-year-is-already-112-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=3775","title":{"rendered":"New year is already 1\/12 gone!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Throughout my life, I’ve always heard old people remark about how fast time passes.\u00a0 Now that I am older, I am amazed how true it is.\u00a0 It seems only yesterday was Christmas but the new year is already 1\/12 gone.\u00a0 As Joni Mitchell says, it’s time to ‘drag your feet to slow the circle down’.\u00a0 Life is certainly short!!<\/p>\n

I’ve continued sewing and knitting through this winter season though I’m not accomplishing a great deal.\u00a0 The last few weeks have been plagued with pain from a strained lower back and a foot injury which has slowed me down a bit.\u00a0 Cool weather seems to exacerbate the issue.\u00a0 Thankfully, I’m feeling better every day.<\/p>\n

I’ve made another seersucker shirt for Jacob.\u00a0 This one is salmon and white striped and I included a matching print on the inside collar.\u00a0 (The color is more orange than the picture depicts.)\u00a0 As usual, the front pocket and back yoke are bias\/chevron cut and sewn.\u00a0 Also included are French seams so no raw edges are exposed inside the shirt.\u00a0 He likes it a lot and has added it into his shirt rotation.\u00a0 I have three more seersucker fabrics awaiting cutting and sewing before I consider retiring the concept.\u00a0 A closet filled with similar-textured shirts is enough!<\/p>\n

In the knitting scene, I have continued making socks but have nothing finished at present to show.\u00a0 I’m busy making replacement rainbow-colored socks for Stormy as the ones given for her birthday did not fit.\u00a0 The new ones are bolder colored and\"\"<\/a> a stretchier design.\u00a0 They should be finished this week.<\/p>\n

I finished and gifted a Sockhead hat for Jacob.\u00a0 This was made using Knit Picks Stroll Fingering yarn in ‘Train Station Tonal’ colorway on size US 3 needles.\u00a0 I enlarged the pattern (making it 8 stitches wider) to fit his big head.\u00a0 He tried it on and was pleased with the fit.\u00a0 I hope he enjoys it!<\/p>\n

To add something new and fun to my knitting basket, I’ve assembled some progress markers using glass beads I made myself.\u00a0 I haven’t gotten out the torch and made beads in a while but these were in my stash and after purchasing some jewelry findings, I had everything needed to assemble the markers.\u00a0 I use them to mark knitted stitches, rows, pattern changes or to show progress during any given time span.\u00a0 I’ve really enjoyed using\"\"<\/a> them and am so glad I found a good purpose for the beads. The photo is a close-up with the yellow bead being less than 1\/2″ in diameter.<\/p>\n

No matter what your plans for the coming weekend and the rest of February, I hope you find peace, smiles and discover all you seek.<\/p>\n

Shirl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Throughout my life, I’ve always heard old people remark about how fast time passes.\u00a0 Now that I am older, I am amazed how true it is.\u00a0 It seems only yesterday was Christmas but the new year is already 1\/12 gone.\u00a0 As Joni Mitchell says, it’s time to ‘drag your feet to slow the circle down’.\u00a0 (continue reading…) <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3775"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3790,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775\/revisions\/3790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}